WHILE WRITING this I received an invitation to Washington. At the end of the message, this: “in case of a federal government shutdown, the event will be canceled.” All these years later, I was left thinking, could it be 1995?… Read More ›
Mitt Romney
For the GOP, it’s 2050 in America
I HAD JUST finished reading the New York Times article “Republicans Reconsider Positions on Immigration” when confirmation of President Obama’s Florida victory arrived. Had more Republicans heeded the advice of Florida’s Jeb Bush, this article, and the contest it describes,… Read More ›
Why We Learn Nothing from the Presidential Debates
I‘VE TAKEN IN all the US presidential and vice-presidential debates. Over the years these have become highly rehearsed and scripted affairs, meticulously polished and doubtless focus group vetted and — well, who knows what else the candidates do these days…. Read More ›
Romney’s the victim of campaigns that reduce issues to cartoons and caricatures
RUMOURS OF ROMNEY’S demise, to paraphrase Mark Twain, may be premature: but we know already the substance of the obituary should it soon come to that.
Podcast 12: The “Innocence” Video, Salman Rushdie, Peter Lougheed, TTC, Mitt Romney, and more
• Podcast 012 | Week of 08.16.2012 Download entire podcast (320 kbps mp3).
The Triumph of America’s Booboisie
WELL BEFORE THE lapsed acronym RINO (Republican In Name Only) was re-popularized by California Reaganite Celeste Greig, Barry Goldwater had taken on the Rockefeller Republican, energizing a contemporary political trajectory whose crowning achievement was announced on July 27, 1980, by… Read More ›
What Mitt Romney’s returns tell us about the tax system
SOME WEEKS ago, having already absorbed a good many of Mitt Romney’s debate performances, New York Times columnist David Brooks noted the tinniness of the former Massachusetts governor every time the subject of money arose. Why can’t politicians talk plainly… Read More ›
Rick Santorum and the Republicans’ Kennedy Problem
ON SEPTEMBER 12, the Democrat nominee for the 1960 Presidential election addressed the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in a speech which begins as follows:
